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From: rang@cpsin3.cps.msu.edu (Anton Rang)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: rewriting FROM: lines (really domain names)
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Date: 2 Jun 89 17:19:03 GMT
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Reply-To: rang@cpsin3.cps.msu.edu (Anton Rang)
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I'm sure there are others better qualified than I to answer this, but
here's an attempt at a quick explanation.

>	In my address from uunet (fred@cdin-1.uu.net) I wonder whether I'm in
>domain uu or net or what?

  You are in the domain uu.net, which is a subdomain of the net
domain.  "net" is the domain of non-Internet networks (more or less,
someone can probably clarify this) and "uu.net" is the domain of the
UUCP network.

>	And since we have a lot of customers out there, to whom we assigned site 
>names but nothing, else should they be in our own little domain even so they 
>are all separate entities?

  I'm not quite clear about what you mean here.  Domain names should
reflect some sort of hierarchical organization.  If they are customers
of yours, but not part of your organization itself, they should have
their own domains (probably under "com" if they are companies).

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| Anton Rang (grad student) | "VMS Forever!"         |
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